[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: hiccup, a toy tcl impersonator in haskell

Donald Bruce Stewart dons at cse.unsw.edu.au
Fri Jun 29 21:12:12 EDT 2007


consalus:
> A while back I saw a toy tcl interpreter in 550 lines of C called
> 'picol'. I was looking for a simple language to implement in haskell,
> so I made my own toy tcl interpreter. It was surprisingly easy to
> make, thanks to the magic of Haskell and Bytestrings. :)  It handles a
> few things incorrectly, and it is not feature complete, but I thought
> maybe somebody else might find it interesting.
> 
> For the record (though it means nothing), my interpreter is about half
> the size of picol and runs  about 30% faster in the few tests I've
> run, despite having a few more features. (it was certainly less than
> half the size of picol, but I keep tacking on functions when I get
> bored).
> 
> Anyway, you can check it out at:
> http://code.google.com/p/hiccup/
> 
> I plan on making it more complete and faithful to tcl, but I'm
> branching into a different project for this one. However, any
> suggestions to make hiccup more efficient, elegant, or correct are
> certainly appreciated.
> 
> Cheers,

Great work! Would you like to upload it to hackage.haskell.org, so it
can be found more easily?

-- Don


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